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SKATE.

C. G. REINHARDT.

PatentedSept. Z9, 1896.

UNITED STATES PATENT EErcE.

CHARLES C. REINHARDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

SKATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 568,547, datedSeptember 29, 1896.

Application filed October 19, 1895.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES C. REINHARDT, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city, county, and State of New York, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Skates, of which thefollowing is a specification.

This invention has reference to certain improvements in skates of thatclass known as racing-skates, which, owing to the greater length oftheir runners, require a special construction, so as to provide for theeXtra pressure on the forward portion of the same.

The requirements of a racing-skate are an eXtra length of runnercombined with strength of construction and greatest possible reductionin weight, so that the skate can stand the extra strain and pressure towhich it is subjected when in actual use. These requirements are met byactual tests in my improved skate, which comprises a long thin runner,and a longitudinally-grooved runner-support riveted to the sole and heelparts of the footpiece and tapering at the front end in advance of thepoint of connection between the sole and the same. The foot-piece i'sprovided with recesses at the under side for the straps and with atransverse strip of metal which extends across the sole part of thefoot-piece and is provided with prongs, said prongs forming inconnection with a disk provided with a lug entering into the heel arigid connection for the rivets that are passed from the runner-supportthrough the foot-piece 'and the sole-strip land heel-disk, as will befully described hereinafter, and finally pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l represents a perspective view ofmy improved skate; and Figs. 2 and 3 are vertical transverse sections onlines 2 2 and 3 3, Fig. l.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

Referring to the drawings, A represen ts the runner of my improvedskate, which runner is made of eXtra length, by preference from fifteento twenty inches in length, so as to eX- tend a considerable distancebeyond the toe and heel of the foot. The runner is riveted in alongitudinal groove, of the runner-support B, by which it is connectedto the foot-piece C. The runner-support B is preferably made of SerialNox 566,247. (No model.)

aluminium, which, owingA to its lightness and proportionate strength, isespecially adapted for the eXtra strain and pressure to which the skateis subjected when in use, as steel or any other metal by reason of itsweight would not permit a practical skate for racing purposes. Therunner-support B is made wider below the sole than between the sole andheel connection, and tapers from such wide connected front part to itsextreme front end, while at the point of connectionwith lthe heel therunner-support 'is also made wide, and both the wide sole part and thewide heel part riveted by means of transverse rivets to the foot-piece.

The runner-support B is provided with recesses or indentations at itswidest portions, so as to make the connection by means of riveting-pinsCZ d with the sole and heel parts of the foot-piece. To produce a strongconnection between the runner-support and the sole part by theriveting-pins d d, the footpiece is provided at its sole part with atransverse steel strip e, which is provided with pointed prongs c", thatengage with the sole of the shoe, While the heel-piece is provided witha disk f, having a headed lug f', that is adapted to engage with arecess of the heel of the shoe. By means of the transverse solestrip dand the disk-shaped heel-piece f a rigid connection between therunner-support and the sole-piece is obtained, as thereby therivetinglpins have a iirm bearing and can be firmly applied to thefoot-piece.

The foot-piece is provided at the under side in front of the sole-piecewith a recess g, and in front of the heel-piece with a recess g',through which recesses the straps by which the skate is attached to thefoot can be conveniently passed without requiring eXtra holes passingthrough the foot-piece or runner-support of the straps.

My improved skate combines the eXtra length of runner with considerablestrength and lightness, so that the runner is enabled to resist theextra pressure on the same without bending or breaking, the lightness ofthe skate being due to the use of aluminium for the runner-support, sothat racing-skates with runners from sixteen to twenty inches long andfrom one-sixteenth to three thirty-second parts of an inch 'can be madewithout IOO the toe of the foot-support and tapering graduaily from thebroadened bail portion, means for attaching said runner-support to saidfootsupport, and a long thin runner heid in the groove of saidrunner-support.

2. In a skate the combination of a footpiece provided with a transversemetal strip having prongs, a heel-plate provided with anupwardly-extending lug, a long thin runner extending some distancebeyond the heel and toe portions of said foot-piece, alongitudina11ygrooved runn er-support extending from the heel portion ofsaid foot-pieee to the tip end of the runner and made wider at the bailand heel portions than between said portions, said support taperinggradually from the widened bali portion to the tip thereof,riveting-pins extending through the transverse metal strip, thefoot-piece and the widened bail portion of the support, and rivetsadapted to clamp the heel-plate, footpiece and the runner-support firmlytogether.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I havesigned myname in pres ence of two subscribing witnesses.

CHARLES C. REINHARDT,

Witnesses:

PAUL GOEPEL, (ino. W. JAEKEL.

